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Earlier this summer, Kelly Young, President and Founder of Education Reimagined, shared her thoughts on what infrastructure is needed to enable learner-centered ecosystems to thrive. In her article, Young writes: “Luckily, there are pieces of this infrastructure already out there, whether they are being deployed in a single learner-centered environment, a micro-school, or in an…

“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933 Change is hard inside schools. It’s easier to keep doing the same things…

School starts here in Iowa this week, so an EducationWeek article, written by Tyrone C. Howard and published on August 12, 2022, caught my eye. Dr. Howard is a professor of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles and the director of the university’s Center for the Transformation of Schools. Howard is also president-elect…

This past week I came across an article printed by the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled “To End Homelessness, the Energy of Money Must Change.” I usually write about education and learning, but stay with me here as we use homelessness to inform us how improving learning for our young people could improve. Daniel Heimpel,…

This is a Best of the Best article, originally posted by The Education Game back in 2021. The topic is a good one, especially since our kids are headed back to school this month. Enjoy! In most traditional schools, academic work begins the first day of instruction. Teachers are seen as “on task” if they…

I’ve written about the personalized learning lab school we launched while I served as the executive director of a Houston-based educational non-profit. In 2015, our lab school partnered with a Houston area school district to apply for a XQ Super School grant. The hope was to take what we were learning in our lab school…

A few weeks ago, I participated in an online conference hosted by The Smithsonian, their National Education Summit. It was two days of deep, exploratory learning for both young and adult learners. When I reviewed some of the session titles, it became apparent to me that these learning sessions were a bit different than most…